Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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